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Not sure if this has been done before, in the line of best movies how about your favourite 80's movies. Be they blockbusters or cult movies being a child of the 80's I still love watching my old favourites on DVD.

In no particular order the movies I have on high rotation are;

The Lost Boys
Point Break
The Breakfast Club
Top Gun
Waynes World

and one for the wife,

Dirty Dancing

What are yours?

Top Gun
Days of Thunder
Risky Business
Rain Man

Basically any Tom Cruise movie. He's a legend!

Where do I start?

Raging Bull (1980)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Stripes (1981)
Caddyshack (1981)
Police Academy (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Witness (1985)
Stand By Me (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)

And from Australia...

The Club (1980)
Breaker Morant (1980)
Gallipoli (1981)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Starstruck (1982)
Heatwave (1982)
Goodbye Paradise (1982)
Careful... He Might Hear You (1983)
BMX Bandits (1983)
The Fringe Dwellers (1984)
Strikebound (1984)
Fran (1985)
Malcolm (1986)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Dead Calm (1988)
Evil Angels (1989)

Hazbeen wrote:Not sure if this has been done before, in the line of best movies how about your favourite 80's movies. Be they blockbusters or cult movies being a child of the 80's I still love watching my old favourites on DVD.

In no particular order the movies I have on high rotation are;

The Lost Boys
Point Break
The Breakfast Club
Top Gun
Waynes World

and one for the wife,

Dirty Dancing

What are yours?

I thought Waynes World was the 90s, 91 made 92 released.

Agree with all the ones mentioned so far esp Ferris Bueller, Breakfast Club, Bull Durham, Wierd Science - Kelly Le Brock hmmmm, for the music score and scenery I liked the Man from Snowy Rver too.

Alos rated the Big Steal as an Aussie movie but IIRC that was early 90s

Chariots of Fire is a classic too

Wayne's World was 1992.

My favourite 80s movies:

Rocky 3
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Club
Empire Strikes Back
Back To School

Well sorry if Waynes World was in the 90's, still love it and group it with the era of the movies I have mentioned.

Some others that haven't been mentioned:

Used Cars (1980)
Blues Brothers (1980)
The Thing (1982)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
Commando (1985)
Aliens (1986)
Spaceballs (1987)
Predator (1987)

The Lost Boys
Ferris Bullers Day Off
Back to The Future 1 and 2
Risky Business
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Christine
Weird Science
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
When Harry Met Sally
St. Elmo's Fire
The Breakfast Club
Trick or Treat (Horror, Heavy Metal flick)
Planes Trains and Automobiles

So many, great era...sadly alot of todays movies dont cut it anymore

Anything with John Candy! Loved his movies as I was growing up...

Uncle Buck
The Great Outdoors
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Brewsters Millions
Blues Brothers
Stripes
National Lampoons Vacation

So far as others are concerned;

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Beverley Hills Cop (1 not 2)
Commando
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Untouchables
Mississippi Burning
Cannonball Run
Stand By Me
Top Gun

Southee, what's going on mate? I didn't see The Never Ending Story in your list...

*EDIT* Forgot "Gallipoli" but seeing it in someone elses list reminded me. Great film. Probably the best war film ever made.

Breaker Morant
Blues Brothers
Gallipoli
Mad Max 2
Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future

Ground Zero, a great little aussie flick with Colin Friels about Maralinga

Top Secret
Flying High
Revenge Of The Nerds
Smokey and The Bandit

All the Molly Ringwald Movies of the 80's eg sixteen candles, pretty in pink and the breakfast club.
Risky Buisness, Top Gun, revenge of the Nerds all of em. the 80's were awsome even the music was cool - this decade had the most one hit wonders of all time.

southee wrote:Trick or Treat (Horror, Heavy Metal flick)

Top call fella

Would have to be between caddyshack and Major League

Roochick wrote:All the Molly Ringwald Movies of the 80's eg sixteen candles, pretty in pink and the breakfast club.
Risky Buisness, Top Gun, revenge of the Nerds all of em. the 80's were awsome even the music was cool - this decade had the most one hit wonders of all time.

You should talk to Mrs Smac about all those Molly Ringwald movies.

'Cos it would save me having to (Breakfast Club excepted - great fillum).

Police Academy, Ferris Bueller, Blues Brothers are the top 3 for me. A great time in movie history, so many good ones to choose.

Stand By Me.. end of story.

I've seen it over 200 times and can recite the film word for word

Back to the Future movies were and still are good value..

Constance_Perm wrote:Top Secret
Flying High
Revenge Of The Nerds
Smokey and The Bandit

I think you'll find Smokey and the Bandit was pre-1980...

Great movie though. I can't wait until my boy is old enough to sit down and watch a good old Burt Reynolds car chase movie with me!

Cambridge Clarrie wrote:

Constance_Perm wrote:Top Secret
Flying High
Revenge Of The Nerds
Smokey and The Bandit

I think you'll find Smokey and the Bandit was pre-1980...

Great movie though. I can't wait until my boy is old enough to sit down and watch a good old Burt Reynolds car chase movie with me!

LOL Thats pretty much how it happened to me ... I'd watch it again and again with the old man (occsionally mix it up with "Hooper") until about the 463rd time my old man suggested "How about we watch Smokey & tha Bandit again", to which the reply came "FFS dad Im 14 and can recite every word, there is nowhere else to go with this one"

The Goonies
Stand By Me
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Better Off Dead
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
The Outsiders
The Lost Boys
Gods Must Be Crazy
Poltergeist
All the horror films of the time - Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Happy Birthday To Me

I could go on and on……